Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …

Louis in our office ran into an issue lately where I was trying to push out Trend clients to workstations and was receiving a security prompt saying the account does not have administrator privileges” when in actually does. To fix this issue I went into “Computer Management” and connected to each computer via the “Connect …

We ran into this in our office and we have a workaround.   Issue:   After upgrading from Vista to Windows 7, our VMware Workstation (and VMware Player) installs no longer functioned properly. When we would go to start our virtual machines, we would get The VMware Authorization Service is not running” and when attempting …

Well, what d’ya know? I’m not sure how far back this feature goes (at least Vista, maybe XP, gosh, maybe even Windows 2000?), but it became a very practical solution for me today.   My Requirement I’m the a picture is worth a 1000 words” guy – and as such, I’m always creating little Jing …

Customers are asking… So, we’ve got a statement for customers in Victoria, BC.   Microsoft has formally announced that Windows 7 has been “released to manufacturing” with the general availability date to customers being pegged as October 22.  We at itgroove are extremely excited about Windows 7 as it addresses all of the shortcomings of …

I was playing with Windows 7 tonight (RC1) and discovered that Windows 7 now has built in Biometric support. And sure enough, my Lenovo T61’s Biometric fingerprint reader was recognized. It took me literally 4 minutes to configure it end to end, with no downloading of any 3rd party drivers or software (the Lenovo FingerPrint …

I ran into this the other day. A server (a virtual machine or VM to be exact) was trying to apply some new Security Patches on boot but it kept saying Applying updates, 3 of 3, 0% complete“.  This went on for an hour (and who knows how much longer it would have gone, had …

Ok, it’s a web world now, but this old tip still crops up enough to warrant sharing.   If you want to change an icon on your desktop to something sexier, you have a number of choices. You can of course download a new one (thanks Steve, for pointing out www.iconfinder.net, which has some really …

I’m so happy. I’m running the Windows 7 Release Candidate solely on my production machine and I must say, besides the odd IE8 crash (which happens on any windows machine it seems, though one would have hoped IE would have matured more with IE8) and some strange graphics card ‘flashing’, my experience has been very …

The Virtualized Windows XP Mode Add-On (Windows XP Mode (XPM) will be included. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132119&intsrc=news_ts_head Basically, they are including a free licensed copy of Windows XP SP3 within Windows 7, that will run as a virtual machine and the applications running in this ‘compatibility space’ will be ‘published’ to the desktop of the host (Windows 7) …